“The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” — Joseph Stalin …

“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” — Audre Lorde …

“Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.” – Frederick Douglass …

“We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.” — Raul Grijalva …

“There comes a moment in one’s life when one realizes which are the morals one will do anything for, and nothing can change after this experience. We all have a conscience, it is part of what makes us human, its a beautiful gift. Unfortunately, over time we don’t listen to this inner voice, we abuse it and we lose our humanity.” – Agustin Aguayo …

“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” — Dwight D Eisenhower …

“Being a policeman warps a man’s mind… There seems no way of avoiding this.” – P. G. Wodehouse …

“With its focus on fighting wars, the Bush administration has insisted just on security. We must focus instead on a just security, because there can be no real security without justice.” — from the proposal, “Just Security,” by Foreign Policy in Focus …

“The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the public’s general lack of information vital for responsible citizenship in a democracy. The news media has become an aspect of show business, offering merely infotainment.” — Teresa Stover …

From his introduction to the US edition of the book, Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, George Monbiot says, “The rest of the world cannot solve this problem without the United States, and the United States cannot solve it without the rest of the world. We could tear each other to pieces over what has happened in the recent past, but climate change is too important for that.” …